@Kay: Like, I do not have words for it. Our President-elect isn’t someone I would want in my house cleaning my toilets. He is as corrupt and disgusting and craven and stupid and immoral and TRASHY as I could possibly imagine—and he was elected by people who say that character matters! It’s just completely insane! I feel like I must be living in Westworld.

@Kay: I just want to take a minute to tell you how much your voice means to me these days. You are able to put what I am feeling and thinking into words that I can’t seem to find as my brain switches between disbelief and rage and despair. Momsense, too.

@Elizabelle: I have told the few evangelical Christians that still talk to me that their movement has lost any credibility it may have ever had after this. It’s gone forever. I no longer see any of their leaders as having anything to do with Christian values, and I am not alone.

I’m gonna miss him a lot but I look forward to Citizen Barack Obama and his Twitter stream. He’s given me a little hope for the future.

Yup. The kid has potential. ;)
(for another 3-4 decades)

Looking forward to the line-by-line parsing and innuendo of the speech by Bill-O the Douche-O for the benefit of Fox-watching geezers…while all their kids are busy going, “Yeah, that’s the kind of president we need next”…”I’m good with those values”…”how can you be against people voting, Grandpa?”

Thanks. It’s like a litmus test for me now. Not about regular voters but for politicians. I didn’t know Sessions was an actual Trump supporter before today. When I heard he was I thought “horrible judge of character which means he’ll hire terrible people”. It’s disqualifying to me. I don’t have to know anything more about Sessions.

@Suzanne: And you certainly wouldn’t want him around your daughters. Creepy. If you hired him to cut your lawn he’d strip the siding off your house, take your patio furniture and steal your neighbor’s packages off their porch.

@aimai: I say watch it, sobbing’s not so bad. Lots of wisdom and grace in his comments, and fight, too.

I plan on watching it again on January 20, when I won’t be able to watch anything. It makes me sad that the piece of shit will keep me from saying goodbye to barack and michelle on that day, but I can’t do it. I can’t watch the piece of shit take office.

So I will watch this speech again and then I am going going to watch Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen and others sing This Land is Your Land at the Inauguration of the President of all the people in 2008, a joyous occasion. It was a joyous occasion.

@WaterGirl: I thank you as well Kay. I’m struggling with despair over all this – Bill in Glendale and I share a birthday on the first full day of the Cheeto Benito regime – and it helps to read your words.

@Elizabelle: I’m glad that’s how you read it. I don’t really do snark, and I meant it as a plain statement of fact. I don’t know what they think family values are, but clearly we do not share the same definition.

@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I’m just so grateful for Balloon Juice, without everyone here I would feel isolated and half-crazy since the rest of the world seems to be moving on as if we aren’t living in some bizarro-world.

That’s a lot of emotion for one night. I’m not quite ready to watch Denial though it’s been on my list for awhile.

As despondent as I sometimes feel, the more I think about the message our President delivered tonight the more determined I am to organize and resist the orange menace. I don’t know what it felt like when MLK was assassinated and then two months later RFK was assassinated but I can imagine that it felt something like what it feels like now. If ordinary people could regroup then and keep fighting and organizing, we can too. If activists then hadn’t continued to work for social justice we wouldn’t have marriage equality in all 50 states now.

At the end of Meryl Streep’s speech just two nights ago she shared advice Carrie Fischer had given to her. “Take your broken heart and make it into art.” This is where I am now. I’m still struggling to find hope and I do feel heartbroken but I’m going to try to make it into art.

I came home tonight, not really looking forward to discussing today’s events. After the speech, I made a comment about how the news is going to have to find a way to talk about this without violating “community standards” or what have you. Spawn the Elder asked what I was talking about, so I went ahead and told her, because she’s a smart girl with internet access. My mom then comes over and says, “That’s called a ‘golden shower'”, to which my Soawn says, “I know what a golden shower is.”

I may be a horrible parent. I am not surprised in the slightest that she knows what a golden shower is.

@WaterGirl: Maybe if Wikileaks had released the dossier, they would have combed over every detail in it, as they did the leaked DNC emails, because Wikileaks is such a credible source…Really, this is about as clear a demonstration as you can come up with for the partisan nature of corporate media.

So I will watch this speech again and then I am going going to watch Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen and others sing This Land is Your Land at the Inauguration of the President of all the people in 2008, a joyous occasion. It was a joyous occasion.

Yes! I was there…it was just terrific. Don’t forget Beyonce singing America the Beautiful- that was pretty great too. It was so, so cold, and we were all so happy.

@SgrAstar: I wasn’t there, but I was over the moon happy. I’m sorry we have lost Pete Seeger, but I’m glad he didn’t have to witness the election of the piece of shit. But if he was here, he would be fighting.

Just one thought before I head to bed. I cannot wait to see Obama unleashed. He’ll still be Barack, but maybe he won’t need Luther anymore. I, for one, look forward to seeing working with citizen Barack.

Anything that pisses them off, is fine by me. Watching him have a meltdown about fake news conspiracy theories will be golden. “Yellow Journalism”, some will say, but the CIA / FBI is backing the more seminal allegations. It’s not just some peons online, and more leaks will be forthcoming. How will this all shake out? It depends!

So Russia owns the bastard and now I imagine, in addition to ours, many intelligence agencies of our allies are working against this unholy alliance with Russia. Hopefully the leaks continue and become more damning.

I couldn’t see or listen to Obama’s speech live, so I’m watching, but mostly listening to it now.

He’s such a decent person. Never has the difference in decency between in-coming and out-going presidents been so wide. It was a gulf in 2009, but this year it’s an abyss. Each day my amazement at how despicable Trump is grows. I honestly think if Trump touched me, I’d throw up.

Listening now to President Obama, it’s hard to just concentrate on his words without thinking about how this speech would sound if it were given by Trump. Where Obama is hopeful (naively so), Trump boasts about himself. Where Obama speaks to our best natures, Trump appeals to anger, hatred, and suspicion. Where Obama calls for all of us to devote ourselves in the cause of a better society, Trump insults, threatens, and denigrates. Where Obama speaks of the importance of science, facts, and reality, Trump spins conspiracy theories, lies, and even bigger lies about those lies.

And regarding Trump / Russia – Trump tweet “squirrel!” – and poof, “what Trump / Russia thing was that?” move along. Nothing will stop Trump becoming President and he will serve his term. He and the R’s have zero shame so no matter how factual these allegations are (or if there are worse ones out there) he won’t budge and won’t be pushed and he’ll give the R’s in the House / Senate their wettest of legislative dreams come true. Best case scenario is Trump becomes a laughingstock quickly (subject of open mockery and contempt) and the Senate / Congressional R’s way overreach and the D’s take the House and / or Senate in 2018. Then at least gird-lock may prevail for a couple of years.

I’d like to see one question asked of Trump “If the hacks are true and Russia wanted you to be President of the US, why do you think Russia would want you as President? To Make American Great Again or weaken America?” Of course we would never see a question like that from US reporters.

I think forward to the inevitable tragedy that the sitting president usually responds to by visiting with the families and offering comfort. Can you imagine being in that situation as a grieving family member and Trump shows up to “offer comfort”? Horror show.

…they still yammered on about Hillary’s emails when this shit was out there?!?

But…but…the optics! Emails! Benghazi something! Clinton Foundation! We’re having so much fun with those, and everybody knows about Trump already! Oh yeah, and the optics*!

Not to mention the Clinton Rules:

1. The Clintons are guilty of something, it’s merely a question of us finding out what it is.
2. Whatever they are guilty of, it’s the most egregious, vile, corrupt violation of something since….since ever. It’s just out there waiting to be found!

All else follows.

Some of Donald Trump’s “optics” are considered felonies. Felonious Donald?

I don’t know what it felt like when MLK was assassinated and then two months later RFK was assassinated but I can imagine that it felt something like what it feels like now.

I remember those times very well and I imagine many of us olds who were around then do too. This is bad, really bad, but different and I’d say 1968 was worse or maybe just felt worse. It seemed like the whole country was falling apart. Now, this travesty is just a holy shit did these assholes fuck everything up moment. What I mean is that ’68 left a lot of people wondering what the fuck, what can we do? Whereas now it’s more like, we need to do everything in our power to stop this asshole. Of course, as always, in the finest internet tradition, YMMV.

Well, all he’d do is talk about how great he is and he probably wouldn’t attempt to touch anyone (unless he tried to grab some p….y). It’s something I hadn’t thought about yet — Trump as the national consoler. It’s hard to even imagine. How does someone without any empathy at all comfort someone who has suffered a profound loss?

FDR up until the last few months of his life kept up a regimen of exercises that he was told by doctors to abandon. He still thought with enough will and positivity he could walk again. That unrewarded belief is what kept him going through his time as president through a Depression and War.

I thought about that as I watched the Presidents fair well tonight. An unrewarded (for now) belief in this country’s people and it future.

Obama should be so proud, after not prosecuting Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez or the rest.

Now he is overseeing a “peaceful transition” to someone who refused to recognize a peaceful transition. And who’s party will misuse their power at every chance to ensure that they never make a single transition to the opposition ever again.

You can get your 15 minutes of hate on against Trump, I hate his guts and always have (see Hillary/Bill photo at Trump’s wedding), hell it generates the same kind of clicks that got Trump elected, but Obama, Pelosi and Reid gave us Trump by failing to uphold the constitution and letting the republican criminals see they could lie without consequence.

If we want to save our country from the GOP/KKK/KGB we have to have clear eyes and clear out the useless idiots at the top of the democratic party. (see Donna Brazille and Wasserman Schultz)

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